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Paperback. Necessity is a primary meaning expressed diversely in world languages and whose evolution helps describe human cognitive development. By adopting a corpus-based approach, this book studies the five verbs from the history of English diachronically, from the language's origins (c. 750) to the end of the early Modern period (1710). Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 7. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405192705
ISBN
9781405192705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.25

Paperback. A startling psycholinguistic exploration of the boundaries of love and knowledge. Editor(s): Miller, Jacques Alain. Translator(s): Fink, Bruce. Series: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFD; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Encore
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393319163
ISBN
9780393319163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.21

Paperback. Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
218
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195136128
ISBN
9780195136128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.10

Paperback. Uses English language education for women in India between 1850 and 1940 as a way to explore how and why the English language became a powerful tool in struggles over caste hierarchy. This book shows how elite men linked ideas of matrimony, chastity, and heteronormativity with modernity in order to claim power on a national level. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 2AB; CFB; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352273
ISBN
9780822352273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Editor(s): Bornstein, Harry; Saulnier, Karen L. Num Pages: 229 pages, line drawings, index. BIC Classification: CFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780913580820
ISBN
9780913580820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.45

Paperback. This book is written for applied linguists and students on applied linguistics courses, who are familiar with recent developments in the field of SLA. Series: Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748615520
ISBN
9780748615520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. A companion to the author's "Sociolinguistics of Society", this textbook examines the influence of social interaction on language use, and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631138259
ISBN
9780631138259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.31

Paperback. This is an introduction to those aspects of sociolinguistics broadly described as the sociology of language; the effect of language and dialect differences on society. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 360 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631134626
ISBN
9780631134626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.46

Paperback. Introduces an area that is growing in importance within sociolinguistics, illustrating and challenging the 'great divide' between speech and writing. This book brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry. Series Editor(s): Swann, Joan; Kerswill, Paul. Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 352. Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics. 192 pages. Introduces an area that is growing in importance within sociolinguistics, illustrating and challenging the 'great divide' between speech and writing. This book brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: CFB. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 12. Weight: 338. Series Editor(s) :Swann, Joan; Kerswill, Paul.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748637508
ISBN
9780748637508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, 42 line drawings. BIC Classification: CF; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226318134
ISBN
9780226318134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the worlda s languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. Series: Phonological Theory. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 766.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631198154
ISBN
9780631198154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.34

Paperback. Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? This title explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; 3JF; CFP; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 371.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141534
ISBN
9780691141534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Hardback. Focuses on Rome's practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. This book shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. It is a contribution to the debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691123646
ISBN
9780691123646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.89
€ 64.29

Paperback. This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141015934
ISBN
9780141015934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Hardback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198791096
ISBN
9780198791096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; and now, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. This title offers a tale of the origins and development of the English language. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBX; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 144 x 195 x 33. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571275083
ISBN
9780571275083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.51

Paperback. Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? This book discusses the history of decipherment and major writing systems, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan. Num Pages: 232 pages, many col and b/w illus. BIC Classification: CFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500286609
ISBN
9780500286609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.59

Paperback. .
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585446025
ISBN
9781585446025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

Paperback. Finding a particular scientific document amid thousands of other documents can often seem like an insurmountable task. This book shows how linguistic theory can provide a solution by analyzing rhetorical structures to make information retrieval easier and faster. It applies empirical discourse studies to pressing issues of document management. Series: CSLI - Studies in Computational Linguistics. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575865560
ISBN
9781575865560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. This accessible text is split into 2 halves. Initially, Janet Townend takes the reader through the early development and the structure and usage of spoken English. In the second half Jean Walker explains the history and structure of written English, including word formation and grammar. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861564290
ISBN
9781861564290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.32

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